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Changing Chiefs on CA’s Supreme Court

July 26, 2010

posted in: CALCASA,Public Affairs

On Thursday, Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger nominated Judge Tani Cantil-Sakauye to replace retiring Chief Justice Ronald George as the state’s top judge.  If confirmed by voters, Cantil-Sakauye would become California’s first woman and Asian-American Chief Justice. Also, if confirmed, California’s supreme court will have a female majority for the first time in it’s history.  Listen to

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CA Supreme Court upholds rape shield

July 26, 2010

posted in: CALCASA,Public Affairs

On Monday June 21, 2010, the California Supreme Court unanimously upheld and protected the state’s rape shield law, that would prevent specific instances of a victim’s sexual conduct from being admitted as evidence or proof of consent by the victim in a prosecution of a sexual assault or other sex offense.  The 7 to 0

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NPR: "Court To Examine Prisoners' Right To DNA Evidence"

March 2, 2009

posted in: Public Affairs

Today the U.S. Supreme Court will take up a “a question central to the criminal justice system: When new methods of DNA analysis could exonerate a person imprisoned for a crime, does that individual have a constitutional right to access the physical evidence for testing?” Click here to listen to the story.

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Associated Press: "Court won't consider Neb. 'rape' testimony issue"

October 23, 2008

posted in: Public Affairs

Jean Ortiz , a journalist with the Associated Press, reported earlier this week that the U.S. Supreme Court has “refused to hear an appeal involving a case in which a Nebraska judge banned anyone from saying ‘rape’ in a sexual assault trial.” Lawyers for Tory Bowen had argued that Lancaster County District Judge Jeffre Cheuvront

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ABC News: "Supreme Court Could Revisit Death Penalty for Child Rape Decision"

September 10, 2008

posted in: Public Affairs

ABC News reported yesterday that the “Supreme Court is taking another look at one of last term’s most controversial decisions, that it is unconstitutional to impose the death penalty on those who rape but do not kill children.” Kennedy v. Louisiana was a close opinion and the court found “that while the crime of raping

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Supreme Court Rejects Death Penalty for Child Rape

June 25, 2008

posted in: Public Affairs

The Supreme Court overturned “a ruling by the Louisiana Supreme Court, which had held that child rape is unique in the harm it inflicts not just upon the victim but on society and that, short of first-degree murder, no crime is more deserving of the death penalty.” Justice Anthony M. Kennedy wrote, “The death penalty

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